currently obsessed with the chonky orange cat who lives around the physics building at UC Davis, who not only has a department webpage and a Wikipedia page, but also has a RateMyProfessor page with 331 ratings for his course Loaf 101.

[prl@hachyderm.io]

@sharon @amanda @dan
Greetings to Cheeto from Oxford, a city of many noted academic cats...

College cats of Oxford

Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball of fluff with the steely eyes proved so popular that we got repeated requests for

Oxford Clarion (oxfordclarion.uk)

[clintjayio83@mastodon.radio]

@dan @sharon @amanda "Schroedinger's Nap"

[cambikelanes@better.boston]

@dan @sharon @amanda

Thanks for sharing! Remy the Harvard cat was cheated though. No Wikipedia article and there was even a course about him. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/maybe-its-remys-world-and-the-rest-of-us-just-live-in-it/

Then, while trying to find the above article I leaned tor the first time about Sarah the Harvard cat from the 1930s! Check out her hat! https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/12/1/sarah-the-cat-retrospection/

[djtoebeans@mendeddrum.org]

@dan

This just led me to discover that there's a whole list of individual #cats on Wikipedia. This is the internet we deserve.

List of individual cats - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)